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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (366)	2/20/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Edwin S. Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Class 4 and Class 6 deal with guaranteeing a percent of available circuit bandwidth and/or guaranteeing end-to-end latency (transport time) for specific pairs of devices communicating over the shared resources of an FC Fabric. In one way it's like TDMA (time delay multiple access), in another it's a form of flow control. Class 4 is mentioned in FC-PH. It hasn't been implemented yet. Class 6 is a guaranteed connection multicast variant of Class 1. Work in the T11 committees follows commitment and sponsorship by companies intending to implement... I don't know of any such projects for Class 4 or 6 going on now in T11. (By the way, the work of T11 is superbly documented due to the efforts of Roger Cummings, the chair of T11. An overview of all work in process is at < dpt.com >). I'm personally a big fan of Class 4. Ed Lee